Funny how RMF1254's sudden departure from the board neatly coincided with MarkBot's temp ban.

Considering how he often started going on about the show "entering a sticky period" when we had something like two banker wins in a row, I doubt he'd be enjoying the show much now.



The one thing that got me about people on that site was how they were utterly resistant to any sort of change to the format. The themed weeks were treated with a ridiculous level of contempt, the banker's gamble was sacrilege, and even something as simple as the player being told what a future offer might be was met with outrage.

Funny thing is, I always got the feeling that without all these blaspemous twists, a lot of these people would be moaning how the show had become repetitive and boring...

PS I actually had to edit this post because it contained too many smilies. So how RMF1254 got away with 23 in every post I don't know.

Oh, and in answer to the thread question: one of my least favourite games was Frank from December 2011. He started off by constantly getting the audience to go "oo ar oo ar oo ar", which got annoying after the second time. Then about halfway through the show he suddenly got very upset - I think he tried to explain why but it didn't make a lot of sense. He ended up taking a cautious, but not unjustifiable, deal at 8-box for £13k, unfortunately the proveout didn't go his way and he ended up with a final two of £75k and £100k, which as you can imagine, he didn't take very well at all.

A game that started off comically annoying and ended up just being painful to watch. Poor Frank.

The other thing about the Ilovedond people was how they kept treating Alice's banker's gamble like Doomsday. From then on, they kept banging on about how 2009 was the worst year for DoND, JUST BECAUSE of Alice's game, and then they would start comparing pretty much EVERY big gamble made, to Alice's BG. . I reckon 2009 was a good year for the show, and the only 'sticky periods' in 2009 were Early July and September really

Yeah, her game might have been somewhat contrived, but at least she did take a risk of losing the lot at the end (Unlike a certain game in July 2010, i thought THAT game was definately worthy of such criticism! )

Although I do understand what the people on there were getting at with Alice's game, I do think they went a bit OTT at times.

They treated all games where the Banker's Gamble was offered the same, notably Des' game from August '09, where it was offered after he dealt £50,000 and ended up with £20,000 and £100,000 (one said the Banker would've offered it if it had been the Jackpot and £20,000), Lillian's from Halloween '09 (when the Gamble was offered when the Banker knew £75,000 was in the box), Terry from just afterwards (when the Jackpot was in play with 50p), and, perhaps most notably, Cheryl's game (think you can all figure that one out).

Bear in mind that RMF, and our own BankerSpanker used to post on there, we should be very careful what we say about that place from now on.
(No ranting intended)

Ah yes, Dennis' game. Now, I did like Dennis, and I was pleased he won £15,000, but the twist was kind of unfair, and a bit too safe. It, of course, all started after he shocked everyone when he dealt £15,000 at 11-box, then said during the break it was a mistake. We'll never know if he meant that, or felt guilty after Noel's 'third offer deal' spiel.

I didn't actually read any of the comments on ilovedond, I only used it or the last 10 mins of games!

Alice's game was just the producers wanting a deus ex machina - and they were never going to let WakeyNoel come out after it like he did post-Laura, because H on the wings would have called them on it and there could have been trouble

I generally say that where an in-play offer could viably be the offer dealt and it's not clear what the player would do, the BG should come out. So all those BGs on blue/£35k after teen-thousand Deals were ridiculous (possible exemption granted for Louise's live show, but even then she could have made a rushed out-of-character gamble - she wouldn't have been the last to do so and lose in the live shows!), but Des' was brilliant. If Alice had gone to 5-box and then Dealt, her BG would have been brilliant too (and in fact I think we did see a £50k Deal leading to blue/£250k set up the BG once - Jess, IIRC, though she wasn't really the player to do it on).

I also think that the BG could work at 5-box on a statistical player that the Banker has bought out early - it'd be something genuinely new, whilst still being within established rules, and such a player would definitely understand the situation. I think that if Dan Judge who got the 11-box OPW at £16.5k had left three blues with £100k and either £20k or £35k (i.e. taking the other backup out at the end of round 5 instead of £100k) that would have been absolutely perfect. (They'd have to change the spiel to go "say Deal, you go back into live play".)

This hasn't been updated for an eternity

But i've just remembered Colleen's game from July 1, 2008 (in fact, quiet a few games for that month too). She was having one the strongest boards OF ALL TIME, and yet it had a subdued atmosphere as Colleen was constantly crying and looking depressed throughout the game!

There wasn't really any banter to lighten the mood, and even worse, when Colleen was in tears, the other players on the wings looked disinterested and weren't doing anything to lighten the mood or even encourage Colleen to cheer her up, they all just stood there like a bunch of robots and did nothing

The last nail in the coffin was when she dealt at £30,000 with the whole power-5 still undiscovered at 8-box, making it the umpteenth 'controversial' deal of 2008

Maybe Colleen was just nervous, but it was disappointing to see a strong game dampened by such a needlessly sombre mood in the studio which was brought on by an over-emotional contestant

Yup, in the next round she hit two blues and the £250,000 and the offer went up to £50,000 (never would have been that in live play). Would have been a spanking if that offer was lower than what she dealt at. Also she had a target as well (£25,000, looking at the game thread). That's why it's never a good thing to have a target, as when you get that or over or very near that then your dealing, even with the board is very strong.

Has anyone got clips of Colleen's game? I'm extremely happy and I need to be knocked down a peg.

...I mean, even H got irritated with the entire ordeal.

I'd stopped participating in the today's show kerfuffle by then, I think, so I can't remember it. A heck of a lot's happened in the 5 and a half years since, anyway - arguably more than anything that happened in my entire 13 years before that, so it's long since disappeared from my mind if it ever existed there in the first place...

My short-term memory's not that great.

I'd stopped participating in the today's show kerfuffle by then, I think, so I can't remember it.

Hold up, Mr 2005 was irritated?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnqjwAZ388c?

Yep, that's # 7 in terms of unluckiest games, behind Mike from March 2013 (joint 5th), Billy from this July (joint 5th), Sue from this July (4th), Becky from April 2012 (3rd), Nikki Tucker from August 2008 (2nd) and Mark de Susa from July 2012 (1st).

That's probably the unluckiest game in which it was feasibly possible to leave with a red, though it would've required resisting the one box at a time gimmick on a low stakes board, which very few would do (as we saw today in Oswald's game).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oBxRMDnZo She deserved it though.
Didn't she?

Er...I'm not too sure about that, myself...

Just found this thread again and I must say, what an amusing comment.

This fella's somewhere on the sun soaked beaches of the Mediterranean so he isn't here to comment, but just what is meant by ''she deserved it''? Perhaps she reminds him of someone who nicked his crisps in school, or maybe she was too good looking in his view? (Not my view, was astounded by the utterly creepy sycophancy and leering going on by members of this crack den when she was on the TV).

Yeah, I might elaborate on my earlier comment actually - I was recovering from a hell of a night in some pub in Portsmouth when I wrote it, and wasn't saying much. Now people who don't exist are saying stuff to me, but I don't...well, anyway, I lost my train of thought there, to be honest, but on topic - I can't really justify saying Siobhan deserved that awful luck.

For the most part, I don't think anyone playing the game deserves bad luck, unless they happen to have questionable backgrounds, as we saw with the case of the disgraced priest Neil Horan when he appeared on 'Britain's Got Talent' a few years back. But, you know, I mean anyone who hasn't been convicted of a serious crime, you know what I mean. If you're clean, and by all accounts a good, decent person, why should you deserve to have your game run against you?

I suppose that's a question Dave will be able to answer in earnest, when he's back with us. I'm not knocking him at all, of course; I'm just interested to hear his reasoning behind the statement.

I've gone through the list of players from the last few years and i remebered Savy from November 2010

That's another contestant for my worst show ever. I remember it was one of the last games i watched the last 10-15 minutes of on the now-defunct ilovedond website, and i found it very boring to watch. It was pretty much like a copy of Colleen's game with a flat atmosphere, and an emotional and unhappy contestant despite a strong early board. She never really got any offers worth thinking about, so when her game starting to fall apart, it just became a slow, boring collapse to a £250 win. There was a bit of vague excitement near the end where Savy gambled £3,250 to win either £250 or £100,000, but a feel-good ending was denied when she swapped £10,000 for £250

3 years on. I don't know why I did it. I was an *beep* to people at the time and I shouldn't have been. I do regret it now, because honestly, I was a hypocrite and now 3 years later is I've learnt don't base decisions on hindsight which exactly what I did. I shouldn't have said that because she didn't deserve it in fact no one does, it just the way it goes at times. I do give my apologies to Siobhan if she ever sees it because what I said was completely unacceptable.

Wasn't expecting that! Truth be told, my head wasn't right at the time I wrote that comment and reading it back I do sound a bit shifty for no real reason...which is probably my own lesson learned (read:one of many) in those 3 years, not to be an arse to people who aren't being like that to me when it's totally unnecessary!

Meh, live and learn, I'm sure Siobhan won't mind if she ever has occasion to read through any of this.